Mi-8 crash near Tutek
Tajik Civil Aviation Directorate Mil Mi-8 · Engine failure
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 7 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Mil Mi-8
- Aircraft type
- Mil MI-8
- Category
- Helicopter · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- CCCP-25640
- Operator
- Tajik Civil Aviation Directorate
- Onboard fatalities
- 7
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Mi-8 crash near Tutek was an aviation accident involving a Mi-8 helicopter that occurred on Friday 23 August 1985 on the Alay Range in the area of the Tutek Pass (Kyrgyz-Tajik border), in which 7 people were killed.
Crash
Mi-8 registration USSR-25640 (factory number 3055, built in 1972) of the Tajik Civil Aviation Directorate (Aeroflot), having departed from Garm, was flying over the Alay Range, and on board were 3 crew members and 4 passengers. The weather at the time was good, but near a mountain slope close to the Tutek Pass small stones from the slope began to fall on the helicopter. These stones were sucked into the engines, as a result of which the latter failed. The helicopter crashed onto the rocks, broke up and caught fire. The wreckage was found on a glacier at the head of the Tutek River (Surkhob River basin) at an altitude of 3860 m. All 7 people on board were killed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ми-8 близ Тутека” (revision 154272015, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа Ми-8 близ Тутека
- Article
- Катастрофа Ми-8 близ Тутека
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 154272015 · 2026-08-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q18398617
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа Ми-8 близ Тутека" (page 5187661, revision 154272015), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An Aeroflot Mi-8 of the Tajik directorate carrying four passengers: a state airline transport flight. The article: "of the Tajik Civil Aviation Directorate (Aeroflot), having departed from Garm, was flying over the Alay Range, and on board were 3 crew members and 4 passengers"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.